1 “hide and seek”
a- pretending we see things we don’t
b- pretending we don’t see things we do
2 “house”
a- idealism: togetherness foreverness, sum greater than two parts, weaving in and out of each other without ever feeling stuck (e.g. tapestry, e.n.g. wicker basket)
b- sense of finality, sense that something is unchanging (idealism tells me it can be both stable and exciting)
c- ompromise
3 “duck duck goose”
a- rbitrary selection
b- rhythm (goes back to the weaving, in and out and back and forth and so on)
c- hasing each other about like banshees, sometime in the presence of others (gives it something extra)
Sara Adams is a Montessori teacher in Portland, Oregon. She has work in lit mags such as DIAGRAM (forthcoming), tNY Press’s Electronic Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature, and Shampoo Poetry. Her first micro-chapbook, Poems for Ivan, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. More info and links (including one to her co-written full-length New Translation of Twilight) at MAIN www.kartoshkaaaaa.com.